Southerner
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- noun
- /ˈsʌðərnər/
- As a proud Southerner, she always brings sweet tea to family gatherings.
- a white Southerner
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Watch on YouTubeSoutherners, by and large white Southerners, rejoiced over this.
- Southerners, by and large white Southerners, rejoiced over this.
- So many Southerners now saw the Union as their destroyer.
- It's sort of like when Southerners have that expression, oh, bless your heart, right?
- For those very opponents, the slave holding and slavery defending Southerners argued in the same damned terms.
- That was a rate even higher than the number per capita of Southerners who left Yale.
Examples
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So many Southerners now saw the Union as their destroyer.
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I'm a Southerner.
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Her letters arrived every Friday: "A Southerner in Rome?"
Fiction book (1996) -
How can a Southerner feel anything but bitterness toward your side?
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But what about this Southerner, this Dix?
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Lloyd was a soft-spoken Southerner who talked with me instead of treating me.
Blog text (26) -
Liza, a Southerner, finds herself working for an "uppity" Chicago black family.
Fiction book (2000) -
Clinton's decision to nominate a fellow southerner also reflects another trend in nomination politics.
Academic text (2003) -
I'm a Southerner, ma'am.
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Bill Clinton may have epitomized this approach when he selected a fellow baby boomer, southerner, and moderate in 1992.
Academic text (2003)
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Southerner comes from the word south ('the direction opposite of north') plus the ending -er ('a person from'). So a Southerner is simply someone who comes from the south, for example the southern region of the United States.